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Warren

It seems that the Labour Government think the more debt that they run up is best for our Country and the Generations that will have to pay for it.
People need to be asking themselves is it right to back a Prime Minister because she is nice and cares, or should we be looking forward and thinking all this debt that the Government is running up will need to be paid for so how will it happen, well let me tell you Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister and Labour don’t care as they know it is going to be paid by future Generations and that mean your Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren so what a start you are allowing these Generations to have.
So why are the Media, Parents, and the Prime Minister with her Government not raising concerns as Kainga Ora forcasts unaffordable debt – levels for the next 60 years.
The only ones that will suffer from the Agency’s debt which was expected to peak at $28.9 billion in 2033 and by 2081 there would still be $8.8 billion to pay off
will be your Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren which you are allowing to happen because you most likely won’t be around to see or do anything about it which will see future Generations pay for because of incompetence of this Government and those that lead it.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129547761/government-has-no-concerns-as-kinga-ora-forecasts-unaffordable-debtlevels-for-60-years
Money is like water to this Government and they will disperse it to anyone that gives them their vote.
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August 12, 2022 8:01am
- pdm
  
  I found out yesterday that the Covid19 Recovery Fund paid for a new Olympic style swimming complex at the Hastings Sports Centre.
  
  Surely that should have been funded from private sources with appropriate advertising and naming rights.
  
  Good old Grunter. The Part Time Prime Minister even turned up yesterday to open the complex.
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:25am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Were you allowed to swim without a mask? //
    
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    August 12, 2022 8:33am
    - pdm
      
      Cm – I only saw on TV last night that it was even open. Wasn’t on the invite list.
      
      Not likely to darken it’s doors other than for a look – swimming is not my go.
      
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      August 12, 2022 9:04am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Well clearly wet and clean HB residents was vital to COVID recovery?
    
    Just as well it wasn’t funded from borrowed money eh?
    
    Bwuhahahaha!
    
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    August 12, 2022 12:40pm
  - Aunty
    
    Notice how this missapropriation of funds has been spent in Hastings, a Labour stronghold, and not in Takapuna, Fendalton, or Tauranga, all National ones.
    
    Can we all say the C word?
    
    Corruption.
    
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    August 12, 2022 3:21pm
    - pdm
      
      Aunty – no way Tukituki (which includes Hastings City) is a Labour stronghold. Airhead Lorck is the first Labour MP to hold it since 2005 when Craig Foss beat Rick Barker.
      
      On current polling it is a certainty to return to National if they put up a half way decent candidate – my bet is it will be the very capable Laurence Yule.
      
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      August 12, 2022 4:37pm
  - Toes on the nose
    
    + $46 m on a new Olympic Pool for Gissy, and $6m for a new surf club (“special for Cinders”-) presumably cos hubby likes it, $6m for a new rugby grandstand so 100 people can watch 3 Heartland home games.
    
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    August 12, 2022 5:07pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Jaspinda’s reference book is “How to Fuck a Country for Dummies”
  First chapter “Take away the Guns”
  
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  August 12, 2022 10:01am
- Tricati
  
  Their debt is a runaway train, with borrowing at $84 million a day ($3.5 million every hour) and they have no plan to stop it.
  Leaving an economic shit storm for in-coming National governments has been their modus operandi, and this shit show is no different.
  No so called journalist has had the balls to ask Robertson how he’s going to claw it back, and I suugest, he has no bloody idea.
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:37pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Another waste of money(borrowed money) froma Government depart promoting racism
  
  https://www.autocar.co.nz/waka-kotahi-to-spend-six-figures-on-research-into-maori-transport-experiences/
  
  Found it referenced on NZ Truckies facebook group.
  You should read the vitriol in the comments from both Maori and non Maori drivers!!
  
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  August 12, 2022 7:20pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

What’s wrong with this statement?

“Georgina Beyer is believed to be the first and only Māori woman ever elected as mayor in New Zealand’s history”

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/08/w-hine-m-ori-put-their-hands-up-to-become-mayor-in-local-body-elections.html
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August 12, 2022 8:02am
- Opie
  
  Because she’s a man, man.
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:13am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    A lot of people don’t know the difference
    
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    August 12, 2022 10:02am
- fernglas
  
  Nothing? Unless Stevie Chadwick disagrees
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:15am
  - pdm
    
    On that count Beyer was years ahead of Chadwick. Mayor of Carterton before going into Parliament as I recall.
    
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    August 12, 2022 8:28am
    - fernglas
      
      The key word is “only”
      
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      August 12, 2022 5:27pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  I thought her main claim to fame was being the world’s first transsexual mayor…
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:15am
  - Exclamation Mark
    
    LOL… er, I mean Shhhh! You aren’t allowed to use the word “Transexual” anymore its one of the new toxic, poisonous swearwords that causes irreparable harm to the whole lbqwerty+$%& community every time it is uttered.
    
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    August 12, 2022 8:53am
    - Batman
      
      People who are actually transsexual would disagree.
      
      Just like if you went to a dairy farm and told the farmer they actually own sheep, not cattle.
      
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      August 12, 2022 9:11am
      - westernScientist
        
        Some dairy farmers do own sheep, they milk them and everything. Sheep cheese can be quite good, its a little different but definitely worth a try.
        
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        August 12, 2022 9:40am
      - Exclamation Mark
        
        Sure, now do a google search on Georgina Beyer and see how far back you have to go before you find the word “transexual” anywhere near her name. Anything after 2017 refers to Beyer being transgender, not transexual. See if you can find the word transexual anywhere in NZ MSM after 2017, that word has been well and truly memory-holed in favour of the rebranding to transgender.
        
        I don’t know if you genuinely think I am taking the piss or not but I have had online arguments elsewhere where woke millennials get very upset at the use of the word transexual, it (along with the word tranny) are considered archaic and derogatory because of the porn connotations of the word apparently – this is why the word is NEVER used in the MSM anymore.
        
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        August 12, 2022 9:51am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        People who are transsexual have a mental health problem.
        
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        August 12, 2022 10:04am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        How about if you told the farmer all his cows are ‘female’ Would he/she disagree?
        
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        August 12, 2022 10:05am
      - gravedodger
        
        @ Batman, some dairy farms actually milk sheep, Daft one.
        Think Feta cheese.
        
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        August 12, 2022 11:14am
      - Alwynn
        
        @western scientist.
        “Sheep cheese can be quite good”
        Quite good? Quite good? Is that the best you can say.
        Have you not considered Roquefort? Surely you could say things like “divine”. “wonderful”, “fit for the Gods” rather than just “quite good”?
        
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        August 12, 2022 12:42pm
    - bjools
      
      No fans of “The rocky horror show” then?
      
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      August 12, 2022 9:46am
      - riffer
        
        Well, they probably don’t think Georgina Beyer was particularly sweet.
        
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        August 12, 2022 11:29am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Looks like nobody in Marlborough actually wanted a Maori ward

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-democracy-reporting/129536795/no-nominations-for-marlboroughs-newly-formed-mori-ward
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August 12, 2022 8:02am
- kowtow
  
  In local govt electorates across the country when they wanted to establish Maori seats they were firmly rejected .
  
  Some clever type might like to list them and the percentages , I can’t be bothered.
  
  That was a clear signal , democratically where we are .
  
  But the Swamp persisted and have now pushed them through .
  
  Wouldn’t it be nice if the Fourth Estate ran continuous stories on these assaults on our constitution and democracy ( it’s not as if they don’t care , they do it to Trump) .
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:19am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Now all the churnalists are scratching their heads and thinking “wots the fourth estate – a mansion somewhere?”
    
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    August 12, 2022 10:08am
- pdm
  
  Marlborough too I think Bollocks.
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:05am
- Paulus
  
  The Mahuta family will soon fill the vacancy unelected.
  
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  August 12, 2022 1:13pm
- curry4me
  
  Not quite so. The peasants didn’t. But their opinion does’t count for anything because they’re not woke.
  
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  August 12, 2022 4:07pm
- blue collar
  
  Same in New Plymouth .
  No one wants it
  Nada
  Zip
  
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  August 12, 2022 7:36pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I wonder who was looking forward to a nice quiet weekend?
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August 12, 2022 8:05am
- 3-coil
  
  Good one Maggy! 😂
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:26am
- Ghost
  
  Prime minister David Parker?
  Prime minister Grant Robertson?
  I just can work out who will be next
  Prime Minster Clarke Gaylord?
  
  Oh wait, negative news, will there be a pop up wedding next week? Or a surprise pregnancy, need positive news, is china accepting political visits yet. I know, Grant borrow a few more billion, we’ll give everyone a special one off Matariki payment
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:43am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The wedding will be in New York
    
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    August 12, 2022 10:09am
    - Paulus
      
      If a New York wedding only as a tourist !
      
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      August 12, 2022 10:25am
  - gravedodger
    
    I have suggested it before Ghost, My lifetime experience in achieving pregnancy for differing Mammalian species, a successful mating for a certain woman approaching ending fertility by age could be fraught when stress and condition is considered.
    
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    August 12, 2022 11:18am
Tony Stuart

Question of the Day – if, according to Willie Jackson, Chris Hipkins and Sarah Pallet there’s no culture of bullying in Parliament, why did Trevor Mallard conduct a months-long investigation into the culture of bullying in Parliament?

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/report-into-parliament-bullying-recommends-sweeping-change
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August 12, 2022 8:10am
- Blog-aholic
  
  A VERY good question. Maybe some journo in the MSM could take that up? Oh wait, I forgot……
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:14am
- Ehlana
  
  Well, obviously, because all those people in National and Act are nasty bullies. Along with greedy, selfish, uncaring and other mean things.
  
  You surely never thought there would be bullying on the Labour/Greens/Maori Party side of the House, did you Tony?
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:14am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Whoops – fat fingered downtick – apols
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:16am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Would have been quicker to just look in the mirror
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:17am
- kevn
  
  @Tony… I gather adrens office is the most caustic of all.
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:17am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    I’ve heard much the same, from a couple of people who have worked there. I understand that the PM has an “interesting” vocabulary when the pressure is applied.
    
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    August 12, 2022 9:17am
    - Liberty
      
      When under pressure. Dear Leader rants of like a fish wife in the house.
      Probably intolerable back in the office
      Letting of steam.
      
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      August 12, 2022 10:17am
      - Don Beckett
        
        [deleted for personal abuse as per comments policy – Mod]
        
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        December 12, 2021 10:39am
      - SoloView
        
        @ Don Beckett
        “Apparently her ‘concubinage’ was spread around quite freely in her earlier days.”
        
        Bit sad that the best you can come up with is criticism of someone’s number of sexual encounters.
        
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        August 12, 2022 1:22pm
      - kowtow
        
        soloview
        
        I’m not so sure anymore.
        
        The Media are more than happy to drag people’s reputations through the sewer , to what end .
        
        It’s clearly political . Possibly even paid for , now that there’s huge sums going into keeping the media afloat .
        
        Sad to say but we clearly are in a gloves off world.
        
        And guess what , the politicians have only themselves to blame.
        
        Lie down with dogs and all that .
        
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        August 12, 2022 2:14pm
      - RichardX
        
        It isn’t even a “criticism of someone’s number of sexual encounters”
        It is the repetition of an unsubstantiated rumour.
        
        Extremely sad that it is allowed without moderation and that Don thinks he has a valid moral position.
        
        [You are correct, it is not acceptable and breaches the comments policy. It is removed – Mod]
        
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        August 12, 2022 2:25pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        Fair enough. It’s only unsubstantiated because I didn’t have video evidence or a “confession” to back it up. However, I’m sure my source (from about a decade ago) stands by his statement.
        Enough said – its over.
        
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        August 12, 2022 7:32pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Waiting for the tape recording to be released …. perhaps closer to the Election?
    
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    August 12, 2022 4:02pm
- fernglas
  
  Has it not occurred to anyone that people get elected to Parliament because they want to boss other people around, and no matter how they go about it, whether by “kindness” (Ardern), or fisticuffs (Mallard et al.), it is nonetheless bullying? People who crave or seek power are ipso facto bullies, so why all those twats in Parliament should be wringing their rather clammy hands about it is beyond me. They all have skeletons in their closets, and if they don’t, they are either lying or complete dorks.
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:19am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Many polies do it because they want to be bosses but don’t have the drive or talent or skills to do it in other organisations or business, and generally lack entrepreneurial competence.
    
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    August 12, 2022 9:22am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Trevor must have discovered that there is no bullying in Parliament, now.
  
  It is one happy whanau….
  
  There might have been bullying 20-30 years ago….
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/parliament-workplace-bullying-culture-review-mps-the-staff-you-cant-fire/6XHPXYTF6K527LDY3FIUABN26A/
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:20am
- Hugh Jarse
  
  Maybe instead of chasing a “sniff” of a story on an individual Nats behaviour 22 years ago for months, Kirsty Johnstone could simply review the documented evidence from the Francis inquiry report on bullying in Parliament said, read Louisa Walls speech, review Sharma’s opinion piece, I.e. what is right under her nose and ask a few more questions of Labour MPs stated experience of not seen any sign of bullying ?. Clearly someone is telling porkies when the documented evidence suggests there is plenty of bullying.
  
  A quote from one of the individuals spoken to by the inquiry lead.
  
  “My hope from the Review is we actually do some things to change this place for the better. I hope it’s not just all talk. We can be better. We have to be better, for democracy’s sake”. May 2019.
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:53am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The Duck did it to take the heat off himself.
  
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  August 12, 2022 10:11am
slightlyrighty

Mr Sharma will be Persona Non Grata today.

His disclosure will have negated the hit job on Uffindell and the the Nats.
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August 12, 2022 8:11am
- Tony Stuart
  
  It played out like this:
  
  Labour Party: Woohoo; forget that 1News poll. We’ve got the National Party on the skids now because of Sam Uffindell’s bullying!
  
  Dr Gaurav Sharma: Hold my stethoscope…
  
  What an absolute classic own goal!
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:19am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  RNZ tried to contact him, but his recorded message said he was Overseas.
  
  Perhaps he’s holidaying in Hawaii.
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:21am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    More likely he’s been sent to Coventry
    
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    August 12, 2022 9:23am
  - stewmar
    
    I heard he was seen in TeAroha
    
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    August 12, 2022 11:05am
  - kowtow
    
    Guatemala , surely.
    
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    August 12, 2022 12:34pm
- kowtow
  
  It’s brilliant .
  
  Talk about the news cycle .
  
  Bwahahahaha .
  
  $tuffed and the other stables must be raging .
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:26am
- Simon
  
  Sharma eh? Labour have had a long think about issues raised by Sharma and have concluded the real victims here are the senior Labo leadership. What can be done?
  
  Labo’s new position on bullying is now, a little bit violence never hurt anyone.
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:39am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Publicity stunt, the whole thing.
  
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  August 12, 2022 10:12am
  - blue collar
    
    Total Clarence Unts steveo !
    
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    August 12, 2022 8:31pm
Hugh Jarse

Some people are now about to reap what they sowed, excellent. Hopefully Sharma won’t be bullied into silence.
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August 12, 2022 8:11am
- slightlyrighty
  
  I don’t think he’s the type who would be. Seems compassionate and principled, and as a doctor and surgeon, probably not one to take a backwards step.
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:18am
  - crikey
    
    Slightly: “ probably not one to take a backwards step” – other than the one of being elected for he Labour party?
    
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    August 12, 2022 9:20am
- kowtow
  
  That exchange from Fenton actually proves Sharma claims.
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:27am
  - Batman
    
    Darien is a known union hardass and with a history of questionable posts. No surprise that she openly denounces traitors!
    
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    August 12, 2022 9:06am
    - kowtow
      
      Are you calling Sharma a traitor ?
      
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      August 12, 2022 9:13am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        The term used by our unbiased national broadcaster is rogue
        
        A Labour backbencher has gone rogue,
        
        https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018853201/political-analysis-gaurav-sharma-s-broadside-against-party
        
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        August 12, 2022 9:41am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      How is Sharma a “traitor”? Because they refuse to shut up and trust in the “single source of truth”? Won’t “take one for the team”?
      
      How Orwellian! But no surprise either.
      
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      August 12, 2022 9:37am
- Yvette
  
  Hope Sharma is wearing a wire
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:33am
CAKE FACE1

Mr Luxon has grown on me. When he was first elected as leader, I didn’t like him.

Now, I think he’s doing rather well. He comes across as reasonable. I’ll obviously still vote ACT for my party vote, but irrespectively my view of Mr Luxon has improved markedly.

Cindy and the team of $55 million hate Mr Luxon, and are running a huge campaign against him.

This is an excellent sign that he’s doing well…
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August 12, 2022 8:19am
- westernScientist
  
  Thats interesting, I was getting the feeling that a lot here were starting to feel a bit of buyers remorse toward Luxon.
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:42am
  - Ra Henare
    
    No buyers remorse.
    The optics were never going to be good. Mr Luxon is no Donald Trump…ie non political background leading the country.
    
    Mr Luxon is a creation of the Corporate world. ie promotion by greasing up to superiors.
    
    If he has a patriotic desire to effect change (ie Trump) I have yet to see it.
    
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    August 12, 2022 7:27pm
  - blue collar
    
    Heard Luxon on the rock radio station today … total class act with the boys , n they went deep and shallow .
    He’s the man , back him up with Seymour n this country is in good hands
    
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    August 12, 2022 7:42pm
- Philview
  
  The Luxon/Willis combo come across as the adults in the room. They seem sensible and fair minded but that is risky in the face of such corrupted media.
  
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  August 12, 2022 11:01am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Meh, I heard him say just the other day that he was fully on board with Net Zero. That policy alone will do horrendous damage to NZ.
  I have a bit of a problem electorate vote-wise because I live in his electorate.
  Party vote going to ACT, who at least have the sense to stay fairly quiet about ‘climate change’. Unfortunately for NZ though it seems they go along with the CC idiocy as well.
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:36pm
  - curry4me
    
    I agree. But, I think ‘global warming’ might be on the way out. Despite all the legislation EU governments don’t want the peasants shivering through winter. They’ve already said gas, and nuclear are ‘clean energy’. Reality might prevail sooner rather than later. Kiwis with rellies in the EU could send them beanies, therman underware, and rugby socks. Who knows? There might even be another wool boom.
    
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    August 12, 2022 4:17pm
    - Chris Nisbet
      
      We can only hope that you’re correct about reality vs global warming idiocy.
      Nobody has told TVNZ ‘News’ though – More hysteria tonight about ‘unprecedented’ drought in France.
      
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      August 12, 2022 7:00pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        Yes, but nothing about the coldest year on record in Antarctica.
        
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        August 12, 2022 7:35pm
      - curry4me
        
        Well its early days yet.
        
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        August 12, 2022 9:14pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Let’s have a competition. Let every MP post a photo of their student flat.
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August 12, 2022 8:19am
3-coil

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday we woke up to the lurid tales of Uffindell’s anonymous accusers, presented in the gloating media as facts.

Today, we have Labour MP Dr Gaurav Sharma’s accusations of bullying by Labour PM+MPs described by RNZ as “he’s laying out a conspiracy theory” of bullying against members of his own party. The tax-payer funded RNZ yet again, is obviously not objective in their reporting and their pro-Labour/Jacinda bias is crystal clear – is this what Jacinda‘s “transparent” government really means?

Why is RNZ not accountable for their total lack of professionalism?? They should be reporting facts, not sleazy propaganda.
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August 12, 2022 8:22am
- nathie
  
  Not just State funded RNZ, but also State Sponsored Stuff. From the “SSS” article last night:
  
  In an opinion column published in the New Zealand Herald on Thursday, Sharma alleged widespread bullying at Parliament, including by his own party whips, the prime minister’s office and others, although no evidence was provided to support the claims.
  
  Then later in the same article:
  
  In an extraordinary list of allegations – for which no evidence was provided – Sharma suggested some of the most powerful offices in Parliament were working to enforce a culture of fear and bullying where MPs felt that they could not speak freely.
  
  Then later in the same article and for a third time:
  
  Those leaders alongside Parliamentary Service were allowing for the bullying of MPs and staff members, which he said had become “rampant”. No evidence to support this claim was provided.
  
  Woah back up the horse there State Sponsored Stuff!
  
  “No evidence was provided” was repeated three times!
  
  Why has a so called “independent” news outlet repeatedly used that phrase?
  
  When not once as they attacked Sam Uffindell did they ever write “No evidence was provided” was provided by SU’s accusers?
  
  Now don’t get me wrong, I am not saying SU did not do anything wrong (after all he admitted doing so at KC), my point is the HYPOCRISY and pro-Labour bias of Stuff!
  
  When Stuff chose to insert three times “No evidence was provided” in an article that reflects badly on Labour, but doesn’t think it was necessary for an article that reflects badly on National, then is it any wonder the public have contempt for the journalistic integrity of so-called “independent” Stuff?
  
  If so perhaps the moniker of State Sponsored Stuff seems apt!
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129551695/labour-mp-gaurav-sharma-launches-broadside-as-parliamentary-service-party-whips-work-through-employment-matters
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:36am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Just confirms my comment yesterday on why he didn’t send his article to Stuff or RNZ. Would be as welcome there as in Ardern’s office which they are just an external agency of.
    
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    August 12, 2022 10:26am
    - nathie
      
      Yeah I remember that comment of yours, it is Spot-On!
      
      Just goes to show that some MSM are very concerned about not (overly) offending Labour (judging by the way they carefully phrase their articles) and again it highlights how the likes of Labour’s Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF) IS compromising true journalist independence and integrity – despite both Ardern and Stuff “refuting” that!
      
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      August 12, 2022 11:48am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      What makes you think Gursv didn’t send his article to Stuff?
      
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      August 12, 2022 8:08pm
  - Paulus
    
    Do you expect anything but rank hypocrisy from the Labour Party and all its nefarious antics.
    Opinion polls show the tom continually trending down so watch the s..t and lies fly.
    
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    August 12, 2022 10:32am
  - kowtow
    
    That story isn’t even credited to any named reporter , just “political reporters”
    
    Funny how they want “evidence”
    
    All their hyped up ‘climate change” stories are also evidence free zones.
    
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    August 12, 2022 2:20pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  The in-house govt propaganda corp probably outnumber the outhouse RNZ propaganda corp by 2-3x or more, and are likely the source for almost all RNZ NZ politics ~~stories~~ propaganda pieces.
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:41am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  They have been paid to do a job. Facts is not on the list of what to do.
  
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  August 12, 2022 10:17am
  - curry4me
    
    When it comes to the team of 55 million, there are three courses open to a National led government. A: Call tenders for the purchase of TVNZ, and accept SKY Australia’s tender, or the one from Fox.
    B: Do a mini-budget. Give the MSM no advance, embargoed copies. Call the PIJF loans in. Let them find out in the morning when they turn up to padlocked doors, and security guards.
    C: Do nothing. My guess is they’ll do C, as they have no backbone and are desperate to be ‘liked’.
    
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    August 12, 2022 4:25pm
Maggie Pie

Really interesting program on the BBC earlier….called ‘Water-Stress’

The CEO of Britain’s Environment Agency predicted the country was running out of water, which would likely lead to supply shortages in some areas by 2040!
Apparently, house-building in the UK is already being curtailed by concerns over water shortages. He went on to say…. we need to act now to reduce the existing and emerging threat that this poses to peoples health. More than half the world’s population is already facing water scarcity for at least one moth a year!!

Which led ME to wonder if we’re still allowing the Chinese to extract billions-of-liters of our pristine fresh water from those Christchurch aquifers? Put it in millions of plastic bottles and ship it to Chy-Nah?
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August 12, 2022 8:25am
- Benedict Yu
  
  It is ‘China’.
  
  Yes we are. Because it is much better for the environment than passing billions of litres of water through cows, milking them, drying the milk into powder, and exporting that to China.
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:28am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Are youse still getting it for FREE do you know?
    
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    August 12, 2022 8:34am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Who is ‘youse’?
      
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      August 12, 2022 8:53am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Well like it’s the plural of ‘Yu’
        
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        August 12, 2022 9:03am
      - Paul Marsden
        
        Maggie Maori
        
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        August 12, 2022 10:14am
      - Jack5
        
        Is there a royalty on water exports? If not, there should be.
        
        There are similarities between NZ’s water and Saudi Arabia’s oil.
        
        For New Zealand water exports, and there will soon be big international markets, possibilities include a national water export company and royalties on exports.
        
        Look at the big oil producers.
        
        Saudi Aramco, which is Saudi Arabia’s State oil company may well be the world’s biggest company, with assets totalling $US2 trillion.
        
        Rosneft, the biggest of Russia’s five oil companies, has assets of about $US210 billion.
        
        Saudi Arabia and Russia are the biggest oil producers after the United States. The pair control their oil exports.
        
        If an economic way of desalinating sea water isn’t found, water could become a big export earner for NZ.
        
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        August 12, 2022 11:14am
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        Has to be the funniest exchange in a long time. And yet there are down ticks. Sigh.
        
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        August 12, 2022 8:30pm
  - Ehlana
    
    I wouldn’t have thought China was that short of water that it needed to import it from New Zealand.
    
    And from New Zealand’s point of view, the milk powder is a value-added product that surely sells for more than the water?
    
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    August 12, 2022 8:42am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      China imports most of its bottled water from Tibet.
      
      Yes you are totally correct. Of course dairy makes more money for New Zealand than bottled water.
      
      However, the folk here who protest the extraction of water for export usually do so on environmental grounds, not economic grounds. The point I am making is that if you were only concerned about environmental impacts, it is much better to export water than milk powder.
      
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      August 12, 2022 8:57am
      - mandk
        
        It is also evident that some of the opposition to water bottling is based on xenophobia, especially against the Chinese.
        
        I saw this clearly in the context of the plan by a Chinese-owned company, Creswell/Nongfu, to bottle water at Otakiri Springs , near Whakatane.
        
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        August 12, 2022 9:15am
      - westernScientist
        
        surely if you only care about environmental grounds it is better not to export anything at all. Well except people, and the things they brought with them…
        
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        August 12, 2022 9:49am
      - Fuzzysnuggleduck
        
        Yes, the objection to bottled water exports, and to China in particular, is an odd one.
        We have had an extremely wet winter, and we have plenty of springs. If the asset can be managed** – SELL IT.
        We cant do coal, or gas, and even cow farts means beef and dairy is bad. So SELL IT.
        The only thing I don’t like is the use of plastics, and that most of the plastics in the ocean comes from a few rivers out of the Asia part of the Eurasian continent.
        Climate change being caused by cO2 might be deubious, but plastic pollution is something we should aim to minimise. But hardly a reason to not sell our water. Maybe send it in massive drums, and let NZ owned factories bottle it locally?
        
        **And asset management and sustainability does not mean get people of certain genetic ancestry in positions of control. It means do it intelligently first and foremost.
        
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        August 12, 2022 10:33am
    - Nickc2
      
      A study based on the global milk supply conducted in 2018 demonstrated that 628 liters of water are required to produce one liter of cow milk.(Courtesy Google)
      No wonder Maori want to own our water and associated infrastructure eh?
      
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      August 12, 2022 9:01am
      - mandk
        
        That 628 litres is a nonsense number.
        
        The 628 litres is not consumed, and nor is it lost to the water cycle.
        
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        August 12, 2022 9:18am
      - Nickc2
        
        mandk @9:18AM
        No one’s suggesting it’s consumed. I would suggest most of it’s used in growing the grass etc and cleaning up the cowshed and milk factory.
        If you have any problems with my text in italic font, talk to Google!
        PS: Water can’t be destroyed.
        
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        August 12, 2022 9:54am
      - westernScientist
        
        Most dairy in the world is not produced using the pasture based system we use though. It is typically feed lots for a major portion if not all of the animals life, with crops grown and transported to the animals in place. Crops take a lot of water to grow, and then managing a feed lot requires a lot of water for things like cleaning, the amount the animals drink is pretty negligible. In somewhere like the waikato where there is virtually everything is dryland pasture, do you think this number even remotely relevant?
        
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        August 12, 2022 9:54am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Cows take a leak – water is recycled
        
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        August 12, 2022 10:21am
      - Ian Boag
        
        @Nick
        
        Water can’t be destroyed
        
        There was a public meeting a long time ago about water drawoff for irrigation from the Rakaia. Opposition led by Sam Mahon. He produced a glass of (clear) water from the river taken upstream and a glass (brown and scungy) taken downstream of a few irrigated farms. Invited the pro guy to drink both of them … Noone at the meeting questioned the source of either glass.
        
        True the water was not destroyed but was carrying a bit of a load of stuff ….
        
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        August 12, 2022 10:21am
      - Nickc2
        
        Ian Boag @10:21AM
        Tks. Water, no matter how dirty and scungy can be refiltered back to a potable state.
        In Toowoomba QLD, they were debating drinking poo-water. I kid you not, it was to be recycled water from their sewer farm. There was much kicking and squealing from the Shire during Local Body elections that the plan was not implemented AFIK.
        https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/plan-to-recycle-sewage-for-drinking-in-toowoomba/2669140
        
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        August 12, 2022 12:41pm
      - westernScientist
        
        @Nick and Ian,
        It is pretty normal for cities overseas to recycle sewage into drinking water, Singapore being a notable example, they have been doing it for years, but a other places do as well.
        
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        August 12, 2022 2:12pm
    - JimBobJoe
      
      China has water issues – water quality being one, hence why their middle class are willing to paid for water from mountains and aquifers in NZ.
      
      And in addition they are looking to divert a lot of water that flows off the Tibetan plateau into India (via the Brahmaputra River) and into Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam (via the Mekong)…. they want that water for hydro power generation and other purposes. If a war between China and India is going to happen, water may well be the triggering point
      
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      August 12, 2022 9:04am
      - MCōs
        
        Bottled water from NZ isn’t going to be much use for hydro power generation or irrigation.
        I’m guessing it’s a tiny proportion of the drinking water market too. A bit like imported water is here, only much smaller.
        
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        August 12, 2022 9:44am
    - Charmaine Hawke
      
      This video shows what is wrong with China’s water and why they import sop much bottled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRUc4gTO-PE
      
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      August 12, 2022 9:09am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      Honestly Who Cares.
      
      As Bernard says below, this is a stupid beat up. We extract water for industrial processes every day. Selling bottled water is an industrial process.
      
      Claiming it’s depleting NZ’s reserves of water (!) when the same water is used to make milk, fizzy drinks, beer or wash the stockroom floor is a simply nonsensical argument.
      
      Its only purpose is xeonophobic virtue signalling. If there is a buck in bottling and shipping water to willing buyers, why is that anyone’s business but the business owners?
      
      The only argument I have heard with even the tiniest skerrick of merit, is that the bottlers aren’t paying enough for the water.
      
      OK. Do they pay less or more than Coca Cola, breweries, the local dairy factory? If they pay less, then fix it. If not, STFU.
      
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      August 12, 2022 12:48pm
    - blue collar
      
      Screw China .
      Too much farming ain’t good for aquifers
      I don’t want China or any other country bottling our water .
      Let a kiwi do it if we must
      600 odd litres for a cow to produce a litre of milk ? Seems alright to me .
      I’ll drink that a year and produce no milk 😅
      
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      August 12, 2022 8:28pm
  - kowtow
    
    Thort you guys got divorced .
    
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    August 12, 2022 9:12am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Nah…just me and Bene doing our little double-act.
      
      Looks like the only one that got sucked in was Cap 😎
      
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      August 12, 2022 10:36am
      - kowtow
        
        I lurv a happy ending.
        
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        August 12, 2022 12:29pm
    - Fuzzysnuggleduck
      
      My comment to Benedict was only posted today, on yesterday’s GD, so forgive my repost please.
      Doing this since I think both posters add something to this blog, whether serious/insightful or humorous/tongue in cheek.
      
      BY: Maggie is pretty plainly a parody account & akin to Dame Edna Everidge. Google Dame Edna, if not famaliar.
      MP is often funny, sometimes boorish, but like Dame Edna offending Salma Hayek by asking, “Why learn Spanish? I don’t need to talk to my gardener.”; there is not much point demanding apologies or getting mad – that is tilting at windmills.
      
      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-172755/Dame-Edna-jibe-upsets-Salma.html
      
      ….””In the role of Dame Edna, {Barry} Humphries practises a long comedic tradition of making statements that are tasteless, wrong-headed or taboo, with an eye towards exposing hypocrisies or prejudice.
      Her remarks were meant to satirise stereotypes, not reinforce them. We apologise to everyone who wrote, called or simply felt insulted. That was the opposite of our intention.”…
      That said, can’t pretend that people won’t get offended, and ideally there wouldn’t be a trend around targeting groups.
      
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      August 12, 2022 12:02pm
  - argie bargie
    
    That is not correct. The water is to mix with the milk powder and make it back into milk, then they have 100% New Zealand milk to sell.
    
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    August 12, 2022 1:57pm
- kowtow
  
  Apparently they lose 25% of water through leakages .
  Have sold off emergency reservoirs and despite a history of regular droughts there in the 20 th C have failed to build infrastructure to cope .
  Not to mention massive growth in demand due to population growth.
  
  Meanwhile the Media Pardy blame ……..climate change.
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:32am
  - MCōs
    
    I heard a programme on the wireless about the sewerage system under Pune in India.
    Apparently only 20% actually reached the treatment plant.
    
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    August 12, 2022 9:49am
- CJames
  
  There are areas of the UK that are running out of water, but it is for two reasons. First is they haven’t built any new reservoirs for about 30 years and second, they haven’t bothered fixing the leaks, so that much of it in the system is wasted. The solution is rationing and water meters, rather than fixing the problem.
  Sounds a lot like Scottish Water and Wellington Council, doesn’t it. And guess who 3 waters use as their advisors?
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:39am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Exactly. There is no less water now than there was a hundred years ago. The UK has more than enough rainfall for their population. It can only be the delivery infrastructure that is the problem.
    
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    August 12, 2022 8:52am
    - H. Upmann
      
      Maybe NZ could do a franchise deal on 3 Waters Master Plan to UK. Apparently it will solve all NZ water problems so why not share it around.
      
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      August 12, 2022 9:28am
      - septic skeptic
        
        It needs to be controlled by those of Saxon bloodlines. The Vikings and there descendents have buggered it up through colonization. And as for more recent immigrants – enough said!
        
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        August 12, 2022 9:56am
  - I remember when
    
    I wish they, scientists, the media, would make up their minds.
    Is there too much water?
    Or, are we going to run out?
    
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    August 12, 2022 9:32am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      A “Tax” will ensure we don’t run out
      
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      August 12, 2022 10:35am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    London only gets about as much rainfall as Christchurch, ie 600mm ish a year. Of course it is still a grim grey cloudy climate, but surprisingly dry
    
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    August 12, 2022 9:45am
  - MCōs
    
    England & Wales are the only countries in the world with fully privatized water & sewerage systems.
    
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    August 12, 2022 9:53am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Cloud Ocean Water has just lost a case in the Court of Appeal about its consent right to some of ChCh’s water
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/471359/court-of-appeal-throws-out-controversial-canterbury-water-bottling-consents
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:54am
- Happy1
  
  It’s a bit of an urban legend Maggie. What happened was a Chinese outfit brought an old freezing works site and Ecan transfered the old water rights to them. This ment that, in theory, they could export billions of plastic water bottles but it was never economic and after a few minor sales they ceased in around 2017. Since then the court has determined that the transfer was illegal and the water rights have been cancelled.
  
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  August 12, 2022 10:12am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  There is a water documentary on water replayed now and again on Al Jazeera. It is based in Europe. Show the massive Corporations controlling water, from hydro dam construction pumped storage to water bottling plants. Whoever controls the water, controls the people. It is very big. I think it is called “Lords of Water”
  
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  August 12, 2022 10:32am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  The UK environmentalists stop the water companies building more dams for the growing population and then claim climate change is causing the water shortage though actually rainfall there has increased. They have neither brains nor integrity.
  
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  August 12, 2022 10:33am
Tempist

I see Domino’s Pizza is folding in Italy according to RNZ reporting – guess that makes them calzone…
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August 12, 2022 8:28am
Rusty

A standard definition of the word bully:

“person coercing others by fear”

“persecute or oppress by force or threats”

Now who was the bully who locked down Nzers in their homes through a fear message and threatened them with consequences if they didn’t comply?
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August 12, 2022 8:31am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And remember:
  
  “don’t talk to your neighbours, keep to your bubbles”.
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/08/fox-news-who-mocked-jacinda-ardern-slams-nz-and-australia-s-covid-19-response.html
  
  That advice contravenes basic commonsense.
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:53am
  - Inandout
    
    Maggy, the philes will dump on Carlson for sure. Jacinda is the only source of truth.
    
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    August 12, 2022 11:08am
- slightlyrighty
  
  Actually, The Standards definition of a bully only applied to those on the political right.
  
  If they’re on the left then they’re just good bastards.
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:50pm
Bridgenag

SENT TO ME

“How much more Ridiculous can these people get!!

A few days ago, Te Ao Maori News reported that Ara – what used to be known as the Christchurch Polytech – has decided to teach automotive engineering in te reo Maori. Why? Because a single student (who had been educated in a Maori language school) had decided that he wanted to set up a business repairing cars where te reo Maori would be the primary language for both staff and customers. The Ara tutor admitted that there were some problems in teaching automotive engineering in the Maori language because, unsurprisingly, the Maori language simply doesn’t have words for most of the technical words needed for such tuition. After all, when Europeans first arrived in New Zealand, Maori were not even using the wheel. But instead of telling the student to get real, that he is never going to build a business repairing cars if his only customers are Maori speakers, at time of writing it appears that taxpayer-funded Ara intends to indulge this nonsense.

English is the absolutely essential language if you want to be a pilot, no matter where you fly. English is essential if you want a career in international finance, medicine or science. It is the essential language if you want to get a decent job in New Zealand – or indeed, to get any job in New Zealand unless you want to make a profession of teaching the Maori language to the next generation. Being fluent in reading and writing English will take you almost anywhere; being fluent in te reo Maori may get you approving words from your Maori grandparent, or from the woke lecturer in some university sociology course.

Tragically for New Zealand and for the people most directly involved, far too many teenagers come out of our taxpayer-funded schools barely literate in English. Spending time and taxpayer money trying to teach them a language which has no practical value to them at all is an extravagance which we and they can ill afford.” Janie Weir
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August 12, 2022 8:36am
- I remember when
  
  Bridgenag:
  Did the article detail the number of Maori speaking Europeans that could expect to make a living from their Maori language ability.
  Would it be reasonable to expect that they might have to overcome some rather predictable barriers.
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:40am
- Matt Long
  
  This course may be detrimental to a car repair shop, but probably great for a chop shop or recycling stolen vehicles
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:27pm
- Tricati
  
  Cant wait to see a Maintenance Manual, Wiring Diagram and test equipment in Maori. Cant see too many car manufacturers buying into that nonsense.
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:51pm
  - Ehlana
    
    They’re only going to be maintaining indigenous vehicles Tricati, none of that colonial stuff.
    
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    August 12, 2022 4:16pm
- curry4me
  
  There was a good article on The Platform recently with the ARA guy and Sean Plunkett.
  
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  August 12, 2022 4:35pm
ClanMcleod

I posted a couple of days ago about the concerning data emerging around rises in all cause mortality around the world, including NZ. These are not covid deaths.

From the UK.

“Excess Non-Covid Deaths Top 12,500 in 14 Weeks As Oxford Professor Joins Call for Government to Investigate Alarming Trend”

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/08/10/excess-non-covid-deaths-top-12500-in-14-weeks-as-oxford-professor-joins-call-for-government-to-investigate-alarming-trend/

This is a reasoned and rational article. It factors in many possible causes, but there is obvious evidence pointing to the correlation with the vaccine rollout. Many of these deaths will be from vaccine injury, many others will be deaths attributable to the inane policies attempting to eliminate covid. Something that many warned was impossible and they have been proven correct.

NZ is behind the UK in vaccine rollout. The number of excess deaths is on the rise. Yet Ardern is still pushing vaccines and worse, bullying schools into forcing masks ontot school children.

With the worldwide evidence now impossible to ignore it is past time to halt the vaccination programme until a full and thorough investigation is carried out. To not do so is an act of malfeasance. There is no possible excuse for ignorance, possibly there was in the first few months of 2020, but no longer.
Ardern and friends need to be put on notice.
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August 12, 2022 8:46am
- Nukuleka
  
  Dr Jay Battacharya, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, interviewed by Dan Wootton on GB News: In New Zealand ‘there have been human rights violations on a grand scale’ as a result of Ardern’s covid 19 policies. Battacharya is scathing of the government’s futile lockdown and elimination strategies, sees them as anti democratic and economically destructive, and points out that our covid rates are now among the highest per capita in the world. Will the msm be printing his comments?
  
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  August 12, 2022 10:47am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    No, they won’t. Certainly not until the SS Ardern is actually under water and not just leaking irreversibly as it is presently. Then we’ll see the rats jumping ship.
    
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    August 12, 2022 11:03am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The Communist needs to go
  
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  August 12, 2022 10:47am
Raphael

more proof that Labour hates our democratic process. Michael Wood wants to remove our right to have public submissions on things like not allowing vehicle access on certain roads at certain times and other items like removing on street parking for bus and cycle lanes.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/councils-could-get-powers-to-ban-cars-on-some-roads-and-restrict-traffic-outside-schools/JCJKDTHDJXCEWWDZWGQ7GGRAOQ/#Echobox=1660245350
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August 12, 2022 8:51am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Wood will never be forgotten for his “Rivers of filth” smear and slander of peaceful families protesting the disgusting actions of him and his boss. Never.
  A nasty, petty pos if ever I saw one.
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:55am
  - emmess
    
    Sounds a lot like bullying to me
    
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    August 12, 2022 9:19am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Just another example of ‘everything they touch…’
  
  “Wood also wants councils to restrict traffic outside schools to encourage parents and children to walk and cycle – improving exercise safety.
  
  But the minister has assured parents who drive their children to school that they have nothing to worry about and will still be able to drop them off nearby.”
  __________
  
  So his philosophy is that it is OK to persuade parents to ride bikes to the school by making driving a car there as unpleasant as possible? All that will do is make parents angry. And if they “drop the kids off nearby” there will be traffic jams and chaos outside houses and businesses that are near the school instead of outside the school.
  
  I have commented on this ‘climate action’ rubbish before. As Eric Crampton points out it is like fighting climate change by ‘pushing a pieced of string up a hill’. It is people who should decide transport modes, not have them decided by central and local governments. The role of government is to forecast the transport modes that will be demanded at modelled emissions prices over the next 20, 30, 50 years. Critically, if most cars are going to be electric in 20 years, why are we worried about people driving cars, given the government’s commitment to 100 percent renewable electricity generation.
  
  Since 1980 the mode share of cycling to work and education has declined in every census from around 5 percent of trips 40 years ago to its current level of about 2 percent. I would be surprised if it hits that 5 percent level in the next 20 years.
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:51am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    As far as the whole “climate change” circus. It is a search for ideological purity and it is completely nonsensical. Like the covid masking theater. It is at best, virtue signaling, at worst, authoritarian bullying just because Ardern can.
    
    This article highlights just one aspect of this madness.
    
    “There is No Food Crisis – If Only We Stopped Burning it as ‘Green’ Biofuel”
    
    “Over a third of the USA’s corn – that’s more than 128 million tonnes of the USA’s corn production – is used to make biofuels rather than being used for human consumption.
    
    It’s more difficult to find out how much of the U.S.’s 38 million tonnes of wheat is used for biofuels, but it may be as much as a quarter. However, we do know that in the European Union, 12 million tonnes of grain, including wheat and maize, is turned into ethanol – around 7% of the bloc’s production. It’s estimated that this is enough food to feed around 150 million people if it wasn’t being used for transport fuel.
    
    Also just in the EU, 3.5 million tonnes of palm oil is used to make biodiesel. That’s almost the amount of sunflower oil coming out of Ukraine and Russia combined.
    
    Conclusion 2: We’re burning food rather than using it to feed people.”
    
    We are burning food rather than using it to feed people! Let the stupidity of this policy sink in. Now tell me the people in currently in charge are rational human beings and not narcissistic, ideological fantasists?
    
    “If our rulers were to completely scrap the biofuel mandates they have imposed on us, the world would be awash with food and food prices would fall significantly. Then the only reason for hungry people would be distribution problems caused by mismanagement, corruption and conflict.”
    
    https://dailysceptic.org/2022/08/08/there-is-no-food-crisis-if-only-we-stopped-burning-it-as-green-biofuel/
    
    We are in big trouble right now in the west. Big trouble.
    
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    August 12, 2022 10:30am
    - cmm
      
      Funny how the agricultural outputs used for ethanol production are counted as carbon neutral.
      
      However the agricultural outputs used for food are somehow counted as filthy and polluting.
      
      Do you need to look at anything else to see this is all bullshit?
      
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      August 12, 2022 10:48am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      IIRC a biofuel mandate is coming in here next year. Look forward to many of the old cars being driven to break down. I suspect that is part of the plan.
      
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      August 12, 2022 11:41am
Maggie Pie

FB LIVE earlier this morn 😀

If you’re still drinking your coffee, suggest you put the cup down….

https://twitter.com/dianne_torr/status/1557633592372523009
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August 12, 2022 8:59am
- mandk
  
  Thanks for the warning, Maggie.
  
  I think the MSM will start posting pics like that as we near the election.
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:04am
- Ghost
  
  Omg, they’ve found life on other planets, any idea what it is?
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:11am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    It’s a Communist in drag
    
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    August 12, 2022 10:54am
    - Ghost
      
      Amazing, so from Uranus?
      
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      August 12, 2022 12:20pm
- Matt Long
  
  Facebook has a content warning for it, how appropriate.
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:25am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Probably relating to the comments.
    
    LOL!!
    
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    August 12, 2022 9:33am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Cheers for that warning. It was justified. In fact, the photo should have had one of those “contains offensive material” banners on it before clicking the “reveal” button.
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:46am
- oldfella
  
  Maggie, why WAS Kelvin thrown out of Dilworth in the 4th form. Anyone know?
  
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  August 12, 2022 11:03am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    He wasn’t.
    Kelvin Davis went to Bay of Islands College.
    
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    August 12, 2022 11:59am
    - oldfella
      
      So twitter was wrong. Whoda thunk. 😉
      
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      August 12, 2022 12:22pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        It was his father who was expelled.
        
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        August 12, 2022 4:55pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    The article was badly written oldy…turns out they were actually referring to Kelvinator’s DAD who was asked to leave in the 4th form.
    
    As to the reason why, that wasn’t made clear.
    Although as some wag commented, it was because he was 23.
    
    😀 😀 😀
    
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    August 12, 2022 12:34pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Looks like Dr Sharma has been trying to contact the PM’s Office for a year and a half.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/08/national-s-erica-stanford-calls-for-jacinda-ardern-to-front-over-labour-mp-gaurav-sharma-s-bullying-claims.html

Time for our Dear PM to wakey wakey…..
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August 12, 2022 9:09am
- Ghost
  
  It seems that labour weren’t given a heads up about his letter in the herald before it was published. Are the media starting to smell blood and shifting their sides?
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:22am
  - kevn
    
    @Ghost… All will be back to ‘normal’ soon… 2nd and 3rd tranche payments to media will be made this year.
    
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    August 12, 2022 10:53am
  - Philview
    
    Based on the lack of reporting about the Auditor General submission the media are firmly under the thumb. I suspect this story will be used for Labour propaganda purposes.
    
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    August 12, 2022 11:04am
- pdm
  
  Maggy – Ardern does not deal with minions like Dr. Sharma.
  
  They are just cannon fodder for her aspirations and therefore disposable.
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:55am
  - peterwn
    
    More like Jacinda does not have a clue how to deal with it. She does not have control of her Caucus.
    
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    August 12, 2022 10:50am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The PM is the problem, not the solution.
  
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  August 12, 2022 10:58am
- MCōs
  
  That’s not what the article says.
  Furthermore
  I think there’s a bit more to this outburst than meets the eye.
  
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  August 12, 2022 11:56am
kowtow

I see both $tuffed and Ferald cartoonists have been caught out by Sharmagate .

They’re still attacking Sam U .
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August 12, 2022 9:16am
- Philview
  
  The ODT had a headline today calling him a ‘disgraced MP’. My idea of disgraced in reference to the word MP should apply to something he did as an MP. To apply the phrase to something that happened 20 years ago means 99% of the population are most likely in a state of permanent disgrace.
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:23pm
Maggie Pie

Just been speaking to my partner’s mum.
She reckons Dame Tari’s grandson got a few months Home-D after being found guilty of the armed robbery of a service station. WTF?

Talk about one law for the rich….
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August 12, 2022 9:23am
- Ghost
  
  Interesting, but not as bad the kid that got 12 months home detention for sexual assault on several girls.
  
  The grandson. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dame-tariana-turias-grandson-sentenced-to-home-detention-after-attempted-armed-robbery/SJW4KVUBW5F6DBZYDREJ2NKANQ/
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:25am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  He can’t be the brightest kid…or maybe the drugs have addled his brain.
  
  He raided the service station where he was a local customer.
  
  Judge Edwards detailed why the manager had suffered no physical injuries in the attempted robbery he was upset knowing Turia, a long-time customer who used to live just down the road from him, was behind the crime.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dame-tariana-turias-grandson-sentenced-to-home-detention-after-attempted-armed-robbery/SJW4KVUBW5F6DBZYDREJ2NKANQ/
  
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  August 12, 2022 9:31am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    LOL!!
    The dudge gave him so many discounts he could end up getting a job at Briscoes!
    
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    August 12, 2022 9:42am
I remember when

Grants offer $2m economic lifeline: North Taranaki Midweek.
Pacific International Hotel Management School (PIHMS), in Bell Block, New Plymouth was among over 200 providers who received grants top ease homelessness crisis.
MSD figures show about 6.4m was paid to 16 hotels, motels and accommodation providers across Taranaki between March 2020 and July 2022.
Because of covid related border closures, international students couldn’t travel to NZ, so PIHMS had surplus rooms available.
Other top earners were Amber Court $727,000, Braemar Motor Inn $613,000 and Egmont Motor Lodge $467,000.
PIHMS and Amber Court provided shelter to 267 and 243 people respectively.
These amounts pale in comparison with MCentral Apartments in Manukau which earned $15.8m sheltering 621 clients.
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August 12, 2022 9:54am
- kevn
  
  @I rem… Rotorua has been milking it hard as well.
  
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  August 12, 2022 10:20am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  I Remember When.
  In your final sentence you use the words “earned” and “clients”.
  I think the word “earned” should be changed to “was gifted” and the word “clients” should be changed to “bludgers”.
  
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  August 12, 2022 10:38am
  - peterwn
    
    ‘Earned’ is correct, it is not the provider’s fault. If a hotel finds it expedient to rent some rooms by the hour, the hotel has still earned the money.
    
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    August 12, 2022 10:56am
ClanMcleod

I had meant to do a post from Eugyppius in Germany re their health minister’s attempts to outdo Ardern in the covid insanity stakes. I was reminded by yet another inane and inaccurate advert on Youtube from the covid 19 government team. They are still pushing masking even though there is a mountain of evidence pointing out there is close to zero benefit from doing so, certainly in the manner that 99% of people use them.
That in fact there is more evidence showing the harm they do, both mental and physical.

Ardern’s not so subtle bullying of schools into doing her dirty enforcement work for is particularly obnoxious.

Anyway, this is the post.

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/lauterbach-mask-meltdown-continues

As Karl Lauterbach doubles down on his strange mask rules and presses vaccine regulators to recommend fourth doses to ever younger age groups, he finds himself every day more isolated. A member of the Standing Vacccine Committee said in a Welt interview that he wished the Mad Vaccinator “could keep better control of his tongue,” and a Hamburg virologist has called Lauterbach’s proposed rules “political, with no scientific basis.”

Excellent as usual and worth reading in full.
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August 12, 2022 9:56am
Centrist

Just a question for those who know more about parliamentary goings on than me: Since Sharma and perhaps Uffindell may end up persona non grata in their own parties, are they able to go on the cross benches as independent MPs for the rest of the term (as they both won their electorates)?
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August 12, 2022 10:31am
- rockape
  
  Yes
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:47pm
  - peterwn
    
    As long as the parties do not try and kick them out under Winston’s Waka hopper law (which is still on the books). However Simon Bridges considered the attempt would fail if the MP appealed. If they were kicked out of their party caucuses the odds are they would look for alternative employment (they both would still be quite employable) and this would force byelections which neither party would particularly want.
    
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    August 12, 2022 3:02pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Here’s Josie Pagani trying to explain away NZ’s high inflation

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/129545063/josie-pagani-reserve-bank-had-to-choose–inflation-or-economic-collapse

But never once does she question whether NZ had to go into total Lockdowns:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/08/covid-19-political-parties-come-together-to-demand-answers-on-government-s-economic-response.html

Never once does she question whether Jacinda Ardern made the wrong call to attempt Elimination, or even wonder why other countries never favoured that approach.
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August 12, 2022 10:32am
- SoloView
  
  @ Maggy
  “Never once does she question whether Jacinda Ardern made the wrong call to attempt Elimination, or even wonder why other countries never favoured that approach.”
  Does China (20% of the worlds population) still favour “Elimination”?
  
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  August 12, 2022 1:45pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Josie also did not question whether there was a try third way
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:25pm
ClanMcleod

It looks like Fauci is vying with Ardern to top the unpopularity stakes and finding it difficult to appear in public.

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/08/11/anthony-fauci-booed-as-he-throws-first-pitch-at-baseball-game/
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August 12, 2022 10:33am
Tauhei Notts

The general silliness is not restricted to New Zealand. The Aussies are having a go.
I had several hundred in a National Australia Bank account 953-7392. I closed it on 10th March 2022. But I earned, get this, ONE CENT interest which was credited on 31st March, that is, three weeks after I closed the account.
In this morning’s mail I received the 31st July statement, which of course is the same as the 30th June, 31st May and 30th April statements. All showing that ONE CENT.
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August 12, 2022 10:46am
- MCōs
  
  Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:12pm
- H. Upmann
  
  Tell them you will take it in cash.
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:55pm
- peterwn
  
  Years ago I had 72 cents in a sharebrokers account (interest credited after I had withdrawn the lot) and the sharebroker tanked. The only way I could stop correspondence etc was to give the liquidator my bank account number so he could pay it back – all 72 cents.
  
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  August 12, 2022 3:07pm
ClanMcleod

A predictable and warned about outcome of the “war on covid” that we’ve been subjected to for almost 3 years. Loss of trust in our institutions.

Politics was always suspect, media had their ups and downs. Now both are in the gutter. But the tragedy is loss of trust in our health officials and the systems they employ.

“There is now a stunning disconnect between the number of parents declining the C-19 vaccine and public health messaging which continues to eulogize it. That disconnect appears to be fuelling a crisis of trust among parents in other undoubtedly essential vaccine programmes – in fact so insidious is this myopic vax-evangelism that it risks creating a new and far more serious public health disaster for our next generation: the pandemic has driven the largest sustained decline in vaccination uptake for 30 years. ”

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-demonization-of-dissent/

The failure to engage and discuss the concerns of many people at the outset of this fiasco was a disaster. Their concerns have turned out to be totally validated. For their efforts they were smeared, vilified, deplatformed and otherwise attacked.

Instead, we were bombarded with ever more ubiquitous, taxpayer funded propaganda. We were lectured that there would be “a single source of truth”. We were encouraged to nark on our friends and neigbours if they dared step outside this false narrative. We were actually punished for failing to comply with she who must be obeyed.

You reap what you sow. This loss of trust has devastated this country and the damage will take decades to recover from.
Well played Brenda. Bravo. Your job here is almost done. Get the CV polished up and head of to whichever overseas tenure you have lined up. Almost certainly the UN. You won’t be welcome in many places in NZ.
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August 12, 2022 10:59am
- kowtow
  
  Yers , what’s the point of “plans” when a panicky phone call from a mysterious overseas person can send our politicians into a panic , lock the country down , blow the budget and untold consequences to just about everything , literally.
  
  And she’s still playing politics with masks and other mandates .
  
  Unbelievable.
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:23pm
  - peterwn
    
    The same sort of panicky overseas phone call that says your internet is about to be cut off.
    
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    August 12, 2022 3:09pm
- alloytoo
  
  I feared the negative impact of vaccine mandates on traditional vaccine programs.
  
  Untold harm being perpetrated in the name of covid.
  
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  August 12, 2022 2:24pm
Fisiani2

The office talk is that they are embarrassed to admit that they voted for Labour last time. Never again they all say. Labour support will be low 20’s by Christmas.
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August 12, 2022 11:01am
- Yabster
  
  Be interested to know why they voted Labour- can’t of been policy or track record – was it beacuse they thought Cindy is “kind”?
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:40pm
  - GJM
    
    Well, a friend of mine who earns good money and has a successful business is a Labour supporter and voted for Cindy, because she is a woman. Even with some comments recently about government competence, I bet she still votes Labour next time.
    My well off inner city rellies are green voters, you know, because of the environment. They would get a real shock if they actually got what they voted for.
    
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    August 12, 2022 8:21pm
slightlyrighty

https://thestandard.org.nz/bastards-versus-assholes/

Meanwhile, at the Standard, they’re standing up for bullies??

Seems that according to them, it’s fine to be a bastard if you’re on the right team.
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August 12, 2022 11:02am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

POLITICAL PRISONER WRITES TELL-ALL LETTER FROM PRISON ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE WITH RAY EPPS ON JANUARY 6TH.
https://redrightvideos.com/political-prisoner-writes-tell-all-letter-from-prison-about-his-experience-with-ray-epps-on-january-6th/
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August 12, 2022 11:14am
ClanMcleod

Welcome to Ardern’s socialist utopia……

“The police had been asked to intervene who in turn told them it was up to the landlord to provide security.

Shocking footage emerged this week of a gang of teenagers assaulting a worker at the Palmerston North shopping centre.

The footage, filmed and posted online by the group, showed a woman being attacked while they cheered each other on.

Shouting “get her”, one of the attackers could be seen standing on a counter kicking a worker.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/shopowners-security-fearful-of-reprisal-attack-at-palmerston-north-downtown-shopping-centre/KDCNL2GGEEOOPGJNRBT4FT5Q24/
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August 12, 2022 11:15am
- nathie
  
  The only thing violent thugs respect is …. force being applied to them in return.
  
  Time for more Police to be assigned to walking the street-beats and be armed with batons.
  
  (Well why not, after all Labour endorsed the Police being armed with batons during the Parliamentary protest … Labour set the precedent, and Labour’s party affiliates on social media endorsed state sponsored violence against the protesters)!
  
  And perhaps it is time for security guards (and wardens) to be armed with batons too, but importantly, have the law on their side so that if they get into a confrontation they won’t be prosecuted.
  
  And allow shop keepers to defend themselves (with the law changed to support that).
  
  Then watch as juvenile thuggery against the public declines to next to nothing.
  
  Sure have wrap around services to help them become better people. But like I say if you want thuggery to stop then they will need a meaningful deterrence.
  
  I don’t fear for myself but I fear for my children, who could be working in these shops and malls once they are of working age (or as tertiary students needing a part time job) or simply as innocent bystanders caught up in passing.
  
  And of course I fear for all current shop workers and owners (and bystanders) as a whole as well.
  
  I do hope National and/or ACT can come up with something workable – they will gain huge public support.
  
  Forget about Labour/Greens/Maori Party doing anything practical, they won’t … even now as NZ experiences scenes we have never witnessed before, and all under the guise of social media for these thugs to become “famous”.
  
  And let’s face it social media won’t be going away … so this thuggery will only get worse, unless it is confronted, head on.
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:18pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You spelled ‘batons’ wrong. Guns*
    
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    August 12, 2022 12:43pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Kiri Allen and Chris Hipkins have the answers and are settling into their new roles nicely.
  They just need another term to turn things around.
  Vote Labour 2023!!//
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:30pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    What I find incredible is that the scum came back the next day, to taunt the owners.
    And they are well known, even down to who the parents are!
    
    “When they attacked them they stole clothes off them, they stole their hat, they stole their house and business keys off them and then the next morning after they attack they walked back into the business again flashing keys in front of them.”
    
    Animals. They know there are no consequences.
    NZ Police, and our government & ‘justice’ system even more so, disgust me.
    
    Surely these people should have been trespassed, and the police put aside their empathy training for the moment and collect these people and bring back to the cells?
    
    If the business owners know the family involved, then might be time to balaclava up & visit their homes in the wee hours with some bricks and molotov cocktails. Sounds extreme, but at a certain point you have to wonder when desperate people will push back.
    
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    August 12, 2022 12:36pm
    - Prince
      
      When a teacher is forced out for removing headphones from a student during Maths class, this is the logical result.
      Welcome to Labour’s dreamworld.
      
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      August 12, 2022 1:25pm
      - cmm
        
        That will teach the sill sod for trying to help improve the scum. He won’t be making that mistake any more.
        
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        August 12, 2022 4:17pm
- peterwn
  
  Would the Police be prepared to swear in mall security guards as ‘special constables’ then. In USA it seems not uncommon for city police chiefs to swear in local security guards as police officers so they have police powers.
  
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  August 12, 2022 3:13pm
  - cmm
    
    Of course not.
    And where are the Maroi wardens? Would they intervene (yes, I’m making some assumptions).
    
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    August 12, 2022 4:18pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74W_1D-LaJY
Fish Lady has Minor Corruption Problems.
The SNP government spent Covid money on anything but. [4:46]
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August 12, 2022 11:28am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLbO7DOAx7o
Biden never expected it from his trusted aide.

Brandon: Putin has cancer, he’s going to use chemical weapons yada, yada yada.
CIA Director Burns: Not so much. [Presumably, Vlad the Bad can remember where he is, what job he has, and isn’t likely to be distracted by an ice cream truck. 5:42]
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August 12, 2022 11:29am
Maggy Wassilieff

The spin is in….

PM hiding behind “privacy issues”

She’s made it very clear that Labour doesn’t have a bullying problem……and They will give Dr Sharma all the support he may need.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/08/livestream-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-fronts-media-over-labour-mp-s-bullying-allegations.html

How Fucking KIND.
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August 12, 2022 12:31pm
- Ghost
  
  Next step, labour mp’s to release all the hate messages and threats they write them, whoops I meant sent to them by those nasty national and act supporters
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:54pm
- nathie
  
  Watch the Labour Spin Machine (and their party affiliates on social media) start issuing coordinated responses.
  
  Oh it has started, from Stuff:
  
  Labour and the Parliamentary Service had been working constructively with Sharma to coach and mentor him as a new MP, who is responsible for staff.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129554967/jacinda-ardern-disputes-mps-bullying-claims-labour-says-it-acted-in-good-faith-towards-dr-gaurav-sharma
  
  Notice the language Labour are using:
  
  * Working constructively – oh yeah if that’s the case why did Sharma spill the beans?
  
  And they have been:
  
  *coaching and mentoring him – as in Sharma is the problem – it is him that needs help.
  
  Clearly Labour are seriously rattled. Because Ardern normally goes into witless protection and disappears when something bad is going on (which the MSM never comment on).
  
  But today she is wheeled out to dampen things down and “refute” them.
  
  So where’s Robbo? Coordinating Ardern’s appearances (to save Labour)? Or stepping back to let Ardern take the fall (so he can step up and “replace” her, so that he gets the positive MSM headlines as Labour’s “Mr Fix-it”)?
  
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  August 12, 2022 12:59pm
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    “On Friday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Sharma was still “valued” in Labour.”
    I’m sure he is. Last thing that Labour wants right now is a by-election in a swing seat! This could get quite juicy!
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/parliament-bullying-claims-labour-mp-gaurav-sharmas-ex-staffer-speaks-out-after-being-left-in-tears/6Y6DUYVDRNWS6DPEVT7B4JT24Q/
    
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    August 12, 2022 5:03pm
- mogg
  
  What else can she say.
  Ardern is a proven liar,she claimed to not know anything about the Labour summer camp sex assault, even after it had been in all newspapers and tv news.
  
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  August 12, 2022 1:58pm
- Warren
  
  Just like the young Lass that Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister made a promise that she would get justice for after the sexual assault by a sexual predator working out of the Prime Minister’s Office. Instead of getting Justice there was no complaint laid to the Police and swept under the carpet for nil to see
  
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  August 12, 2022 3:29pm
- IndividualResponsibility
  
  Maggy Wassilieff – the saying “you know you’re over the target when you’re taking flak” seems to apply here, eh!
  
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  August 12, 2022 4:17pm
  - RichardX
    
    Yes…that is exactly why Penny & Stephie used to get so much “flak” when they commented here….it was because they were correct//
    
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    August 12, 2022 10:22pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

FBI did not ‘raid’ Mar a Lago, they ‘visited – so the left say.
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August 12, 2022 12:37pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  The Las Vegas American Football team is going to be renamed the Las Vegas Legally Searched with a Warrant ers.
  
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  August 12, 2022 1:01pm
  - emmess
    
    Arrrrrghhhh, let’s execute a search warrant on Tortuga, me maties.
    
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    August 12, 2022 1:32pm
- kowtow
  
  BLM/Antifa riots , arson , murder and mayhem are , ‘racial justice protests’.
  
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  August 12, 2022 2:27pm
surfing

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/parliament-bullying-claims-issues-with-mps-staff-revealed-ardern-to-front-media/DFLAUODS6STW3R5DFHI74SXMSY/

Labour MP’s claims disputed, no room for bullies at Parliament – PM

Takes just one word to prove her wrong…
Mallard.

Just like she can’t define hate speech, she also has trouble defining a bully!!
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August 12, 2022 12:46pm
- mandk
  
  She’s a bully herself.
  
  She was quick to blame that pasifika girl for supposedly flouting the covid isolation rules, when the poor lass had not actually done anything wrong.
  
  Did anyone hear an apology?
  
  She’s liar, too, but we can talk about that another time.
  
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  August 12, 2022 3:42pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  with Cindy it’s takes one to know one. She is the crowned queen of gaslighting.
  
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  August 12, 2022 4:31pm
- GJM
  
  Don’t forget Megac Fightery, who liked to give the bash.
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:27pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Here’s the gaslighting provided by our Dear PM

Ardern said Sharma’s wellbeing was her primary concern.

Earlier on Friday, Labour said it had “at all times acted in good faith and sought to work constructively” with Sharma.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129554967/jacinda-ardern-disputes-mps-bullying-claims-labour-says-it-acted-in-good-faith-towards-dr-gaurav-sharma

It’s a standard technique of bullies to imply that the victim or complainant has “problems” or is mentally unwell.

Never any acknowledgement by bullies that the concerns expressed by the “victim/complainant” are REAL.
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August 12, 2022 12:58pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  and this is priceless…
  
  The PM admits she hasn’t talked to Dr Sharma about his concerns.
  
  She has not had a chance to speak to him yet, she says.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/472735/labour-responds-to-hamilton-west-mp-gaurav-sharma-s-allegations-of-bullying-at-parliament
  
  She should have contacted him speed dial as soon as his Herald piece was published.
  
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  August 12, 2022 1:06pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    I bet you dollars to donuts she has not spoken to the chap since the last election.
    
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    August 12, 2022 1:23pm
    - Ghost
      
      Even worse she like.y has her stuff investigating who he is and what party he belongs to…
      
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      August 12, 2022 2:24pm
      - Ghost
        
        Let me try that again, lol.
        
        Even worse she likely has her staff investigating who he is and what party he belongs to…
        
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        August 12, 2022 2:41pm
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Did Ardern’s announcement come from the Podium of Truth?
    
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    August 12, 2022 2:29pm
- Hugh Jarse
  
  Vintage labour, infer there are underlying “issues”, but she’s concerned for his wellbeing. The kindness of the left. It’s always shoot the messenger with them. Perhaps the bully in chief needs to re-start the Francis inquiry now ?
  
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  August 12, 2022 2:15pm
Prince

Looking forward to NZ Media asking all those critical questions such as:
When did the Prime Minister learn of the allegations ?
Who told her ? How long had the info been kept from her ? Why ?
What immediate actions did she and her staff take ?
What actions has she taken to ascertain if other MP’s have been similarly bullied ?
Given the history of abuse and bullying in this Labour Government, what actions is she taking to stop it ?
Is she comfortable with the current Speaker holding is position given his recent and not-so-recent history of bullying ? Does she regret his appointment ?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129554967/jacinda-ardern-disputes-mps-bullying-claims-labour-says-it-acted-in-good-faith-towards-dr-gaurav-sharma
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August 12, 2022 1:04pm
- surfing
  
  Tova and Jessica would not want to jeopardise their careers.
  
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  August 12, 2022 2:23pm
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    To be fair to Tova, she can be balanced on the radio
    
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    August 12, 2022 6:59pm
  - kowtow
    
    Jepradise .
    
    Please.
    
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    August 12, 2022 7:14pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Heh, wouldn’t those questions be batted away as ‘operational’ matters…?
  
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  August 12, 2022 2:27pm
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Yes – covered very extensively on 3Ewes tonight, must of been at least as much time as they spend on Uffindell last night. /////…
  
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  August 12, 2022 7:45pm
Herodotus

Interesting on the NZherald the media briefing was to be 12:15 – PM turns up 6-7 minutes later, then 12 minutes later has to end the media get together to catch a plane, and allow the weekend to diminish the weight of the story and allow distance between the story and her image. Well managed by her basis to limit her time to be questioned. But had enough time to comment that the PM was aware of an issue late last year – 8-9 months ago !! And also to imply that the problem was with Sharma and “employment matters with staff”.
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August 12, 2022 1:11pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And she sits fit to go public with her verdict without first talking to Dr Sharma.
  
  Shame
  shame
  shame!
  
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  August 12, 2022 1:35pm
  - jv
    
    And she is too arrogant and ignorant and witless to understand the importance of “face” in any Asian culture
    
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    August 12, 2022 2:53pm
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Must be mental health, aye
    
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    August 12, 2022 4:53pm
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      And the media’s going on with the ‘issue’s with Sharma’ narrative
      
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      August 12, 2022 4:57pm
- Nickc2
  
  Yea, she was too busy throwing hissy fits to talk to the Dr, a lowly Back Bench Surgeon!
  
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  August 12, 2022 1:48pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Cunning as a shithouse rat!
  
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  August 12, 2022 3:51pm
mogg

Only last year Ardern was bullying herself, with her infantile requests for people to grass on family and friends who were not complying with her Covid enforcement.
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August 12, 2022 2:03pm
Maggy Wassilieff

The thugs have arrived in your neighbourhood now Maggie Pie

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-gun-violence-doctor-carjacked-at-gunpoint-in-aucklands-remuera/EC6DYLEY6SH2EK6P5MU3HTBSFM/
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August 12, 2022 3:35pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  As long as they don’t come to Bayview. There are only two ways out. We have lots of friends in the lost valley.
  
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  August 12, 2022 3:52pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  yeah i kinda gave a crystal ball on carjacking as the next level crime we will see within the next 6mths. Home invasion will be on the rise too – targeting wealthy suburbs.
  
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  August 12, 2022 4:33pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Irrespective of the Horrid’s clikbate headline…it’s actually ‘Remuera-South’
  
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  August 12, 2022 5:03pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    We’ve got the same problem..
    
    Inner Kaiti and Outer Kaiti.
    
    I have a sneaking suspicion that Inner Kaiti is a tad more gentrified.
    
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    August 12, 2022 7:30pm
IndividualResponsibility

MCōs
Replying to your 9:44 AM

Back in the days when Helen Clark was P.M. there was a suggestion from some wag that, with up to 510 cumec (for those unfamiliar – 1 cumec = 1 cubic metre/second {1,000 L/sec}) of fresh clean water exiting the Manapouri tail-race tunnel in to Doubtful Sound at Deep Cove where it could be captured in to an empty oil tanker (plenty of draft available) then shipped to the middle east, in exchange for the crude oil said tanker brought in from middle east to Marsden Point!
If approx. ½ million litres per second goes to sea, could some of it be better used/sold elsewhere!
My recollection from the time was that tankers would take on sea water as ballast for the return journey; this could then be dumped in Doubtful Sound.
The top 10 or so feet of Doubtful Sound is fresh water out several kilometres from the tail-race discharge so the tanker could anchor well out from the head of the sound.
Evidently water stored in a tank that contained oil will not necessarily become contaminated with the oil residue!
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August 12, 2022 3:50pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  IR
  
  I was at sea in the 70’s and 80’s and early 90’s and went to several Guild meetings where the export of FW had been discussed many times,
  
  Idea was as you say or a SBM off Jackson Bay and the water piped out.
  
  The water, about 200k tonnes would have been taken to a Gulf Port and put through a purifier to get rid of any oil contamination. The water that was in the Oil Tanks would have been used as NON POTABLE water and that in Ballast tanks would have been Potable.
  
  THere would have been a tanker every 7-10 days.
  
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  August 12, 2022 6:59pm
Maggie Pie

Bumped into a girl at NW earlier who lived next door to us a few years back.
First thing she asked me…”Does this still feel like New Zealand to you?”
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August 12, 2022 4:28pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  lock ya doors.. cars.. house.. lock ya doors!
  
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  August 12, 2022 4:34pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Brave new aotearoa
  
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  August 12, 2022 4:51pm
- MCōs
  
  Were you in the World Foods section?
  
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  August 12, 2022 5:50pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yes, I was as a matter of fact!
    You weren’t that old white guy in the Asian Food aisle with the little Thai hottie hanging off your arm were you?
    
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    August 12, 2022 6:23pm
    - kevn
      
      @Maggie… You might have mistaken him for J Pakes.
      
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      August 12, 2022 6:49pm
Maggie Pie

And I’ll tell you something else….that Chris Carter STILL creeps me out 🙁
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August 12, 2022 5:10pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh Dear, oh dear, oh dear..

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/parliament-bullying-claims-labour-mp-gaurav-sharmas-ex-staffer-speaks-out-after-being-left-in-tears/6Y6DUYVDRNWS6DPEVT7B4JT24Q/

a blow by blow account of
Dr Sharma…as a BULLY.

Oh NO!!!
Has Labour selected a BULLY?

or is the entire Labour Party a bunch of incompetent misfits?
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August 12, 2022 5:26pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Look at what is unseen. I don’t know, but the Friday drop is a diversion I am sure.
  
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  August 12, 2022 5:32pm
- nathie
  
  Can we have a second staffer verify all this?
  
  Or is there recorded evidence?
  
  Otherwise as State Sponsored Stuff would say:
  
  No evidence to support this claim was provided!
  
  How convenient for Labour!
  
  Or inconvenient, if their candidate selection process did indeed select a bully! Comment please, from the Labour Party, because either way THEY still look bad!
  
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  August 12, 2022 5:39pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Labours bullshit machine in high gear manufacturing suspiciously convenient testimonials.
  
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  August 12, 2022 5:48pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggy, an un named staffer. Always anonymous to give the story a bit of mystery.
  
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  August 12, 2022 6:11pm
- Ghost
  
  I wonder what office the staffer now works in…
  
  Ardern’s
  Robertson’s
  Little’s
  Hipkink’s
  
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  August 12, 2022 6:38pm
  - Hollyfield
    
    I get the impression the staffer worked in the electorate office. “One example was when a colleague was meant to pick up a key to a community venue where Sharma was to hold a meeting. and “…The staffer claimed Sharma isolated his staff from other parts of the Labour Party in Hamilton…” That certainly sounds like the electorate and not Parliament.
    
    What’s interesting is that the rules are very clear about the position being apolitical – they are not Labour Party positions. (unless the rules have changed since I worked in an MPs office)
    
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    August 12, 2022 7:39pm
- mandk
  
  Yes, to your second question.
  
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  August 12, 2022 6:56pm
Loddenthinks

This is how the MSM run interference for this corrupt government – regarding the alleged bullying of Dr Gaurav Sharma by his colleagues, Labour whips, and the Prime Minister’s office, $1uffed said (my emphasis):

“In an opinion column published in the NZ Herald on Thursday, Sharma alleged widespread bullying at Parliament, including by his own party whips, the prime minister’s office and others, although no evidence was provided to support the claims.”

So firstly, they dismiss it as simply one person’s opinion, and then they pour more crap on it by suggesting he made it up – I mean, no evidence, right?

Transpose that same response to unfounded allegations, with no evidence to support them, regarding the new National MP for Tauranga when he was at Otago Uni. Those allegations are treated as fact, and the feeding frenzy shows no signs of abating.

As a white heterosexual conservative male, I’m unsurprised at the pile-on for Uffindell, but as we see the MSM are not above trashing a non-white, lefty MP, as long as it protects the Princess and keeps that sweet, sweet money rolling in.
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August 12, 2022 5:50pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It looks like a lose-lose for Labour at the moment:
  
  Either they have to admit that one of their MPs is a bully,
  or
  They have to acknowledge that they have bullied him by ignoring his concerns for over 1 year.
  
  As far as I can tell, the Labour spin doctoring has been in overload for the last 24 hours.
  
  If Labour and Jacinda Ardern were genuinely concerned about Dr Sharma, they would have approached him personally before “disputing his allegations”
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018853294/ardern-disputes-sharma-s-allegations-of-rampant-bullying
  
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  August 12, 2022 6:39pm
Suze Wainwright

Ah, so it’s all McAnulty.
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August 12, 2022 6:35pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  If McAnulty, Ardern (and possibly even Robbo and Chippy) try and plead their case that there’s no way they’re racist and that they do actually take doctors of color seriously, would they be demonstrating white fragility…?
  
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  August 12, 2022 7:33pm
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    And how might aotearoa’s Indian community view Kieran McAnulty – a white, ute driving former bookmaker from Eketahuna – and his lack of respect towards an educated, articulate surgeon of color…?
    
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    August 12, 2022 7:46pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  He’s the one that sits directly behind Cindy during QT.
  I’ve posted here before how he really creeps-me-out the way he ogles her when she stands to speak.
  
  Honestly Sooze, have a look next time the House is in session and you’ll see wot I mean 🙁
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:05pm
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Can’t wait
    
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    August 12, 2022 8:19pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Well, amongst others…..
  
  Labour Party MP Gaurav Sharma has posted an excoriating social media post detailing grievances with the Labour Party, its former senior whip Kieran McAnulty, current whip Duncan Webb, the Prime Minister’s office, and Parliamentary Service.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129565407/labour-mp-gaurav-sharma-unloads-on-party-in-excoriating-social-media-post
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:08pm
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    McAnulty seemed to get the biggest serve on HDPA this evening
    
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    August 12, 2022 8:21pm
  - blue collar
    
    Labours fucked
    They are no threat to Nat /act
    They hv shit in there own bed and lost the people .
    They went nuts once in power and people don’t like too much change .
    Luxon could say nothing til sept next year and still win , this is soooo good .
    The implosion was slow mo and now it’s accelerating , still over a year to go ,
    BRENDA GONE BY XMAS MY PICK
    
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    August 12, 2022 8:22pm
  - Ghost
    
    And the good part of his post was stating that it can all be verified. Also Interesting the staffer complaining appears to of been released for theft
    
    https://www.facebook.com/100021155486564/posts/over-the-last-24hours-many-of-you-would-have-read-the-op-ed-i-wrote-in-nz-herald/1056996568348849/
    
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    August 12, 2022 8:30pm
    - Tauhei Notts
      
      Ghost, thank you for bringing that Facebook post to our attention.
      That bloke from Hamilton West is the most honest member of the Labour Party caucus.
      His lengthy post is mind boggling.
      
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      August 12, 2022 10:14pm
      - waripori
        
        I have never seen anything like this.
        He seems to be saying the staffer, who does seem to be in Hamilton was foisted on him by party apparatchiks’ who never wanted him to be the member. He also seems to be saying the staff member did not do their job properly and has misappropriated money or property. Ghost is suggesting the staffer has been let go for theft although I did not see that in the somewhat rambling post.
        He does say that he has had an 18 month battle with the party over tbis and with McAnulty in particular,
        
        The journos can figure all this out if they want to. Interesting to see if they choose to. Very bad news for the member for Wairarapa if it all turns out to be true.
        
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        August 12, 2022 11:07pm
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      Really!?! The msm are saying he’s ’disgruntled’
      
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      August 12, 2022 10:26pm
    - Phronesis
      
      [ Mod : sorry – bit long for a cut/paste – a link would have done ]
      
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      August 12, 2022 10:46pm
  - Prince
    
    Interesting that the Luke Malpass claims there is ‘no evidence’.
    What does he want, recordings ? Plenty of detail of meetings, people involved, dates and times. Should be easy for even the laziest reporter to verify.
    I have heard stories about McAnulty from his TAB days that would suggest plenty of people there could talk about his attitude and behaviour there.
    
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    August 12, 2022 9:26pm
Inthe09

I note the staff in the Bunnings ads on TV have quietly dropped wearing their masks. About time.

In 3 months of not wearing one I’ve been stopped just once by a staff member to ask where mine was. If you’re still wearing one and don’t want to, don’t.
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August 12, 2022 7:28pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Looks like our Dear PM is in for a rough weekend.

Sharma has released a long account on his FB page
detailing bullying, corruption and conflicts of interest by Labour Party officials, MPs and Staff.
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August 12, 2022 8:39pm
- kowtow
  
  He seems to have an unhealthy obsession with “bullying”
  TV1 “news” showed his maiden speech .He claims he was bullied at school and by a medical colleague.
  
  Meanwhile I’m really enjoying the karma of a Labour own goal.
  
  Could even call it Sharma karma. Te he he.
  
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  August 12, 2022 8:50pm
rjay

For those interested in what Otago student flats are like in 2022
https://youtu.be/H_75oNYx_Zw
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August 12, 2022 9:53pm
jon

Just love this rupture in the Labour party and can hardly wait for the next installment!
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The response to Budget 2026 has been unusually muted
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Another non-tariff barrier
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Why I am retiring from political blogging
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